Hi there, just want to know if you get a buzz when there's a serious buyer who has just purchase your work or just caught up in the execution and concept of it, you know when some body " gets it", what's it like for you guys.
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...and I have complete gratitude that someone sees their potential, too.
Honestly it never fails to amaze me that someone thinks highly enough of something I've created to pay me for it. I mean I'll take the money..lol, but I still always feel kind of surprised inside.
I think the biggest rush for me is when I get a client who gives me some vauge, fuzzy notion of what it is they have in thier heads or hearts and I finally manage to convey it for them. And they get all excited about it and go "Yes! That's it!"
That is in itself is Deeply gratifying for me. So I guess for me it's more the execution thing.
Art is my Love, but I seriously doubt I'll ever get rich doing it...I just kinda do what I do because...I dunno...because for some reason, I have to wether I get paid for it or not.
The same as when one compliments me on a piece. It just feels great to be appreciated once in awhile. :o)
Each time an original sells...it is so hard to part with. I mean I have to take tons of slides and photos of it like it is a family member that will never be seen again. I find it is like a roller coaster of emotion...you get the high as well as the low. :ol You are happy that a piece is sold but yet it is a piece that you will more than likely never see again.
~~~The uploaded image is of my latest commissioned painting. It is acrylic on canvas (20" x 60").
A newly painted piece however is totally different,the price is highest when I've just completed a piece because deep down I know that I'm really not ready to sell it yet. The older the painting gets, the easier it is to part with it,so the lower the price becomes :-) I know that's the wrong way to price your work, but I can't help myself.
I've even blown it once by pricing too high when a propective buyer asked me how much, before I'd even finished the painting...
Geez, I hope no buyers are reading this.
Anyway, I sold all of my paintings and drawings of this cat that unexpectedly died. I felt so bad. She was gone and so were the artworks of her.
What I am trying to say is you must do a painting of your dog. When you do you should keep it for your own private collection. If people show interest in it them paint them another. I totally regret selling all of my pet portraits. It is such a horrible feeling. I wouldn't want you to go through that too.
~ Uploaded image is of the smaller (18" x 24") acrylic on canvas painting titled "The Tipster"
art for me has been very frustrating this past year, but I don't expect success overnight either.
I had more sales before art school!
excuse my rant please, just venting!
When I make a sale, or allow an image to be used, it tugs at me,which sounds silly doesn't it? I suppose because it was /is a part of "me", but am always happy when my client is pleased and I have money in my hot lil' hand!
Theres work out there i touched and wish i could see again ...old friends i guess..
: )
I did want to add that the hugest, most glorifying 'rush' is when the piece is completed, for me... i become reborn in a sense and have described the feeling to a non artist as being healed from some terminal disease when a piece is completed..
Am i alone in this feeling?
I dance and boogie and smile and eat happy...hopefully someone knows this feeling too...(or maybe i'm looney and should slink away quietly : )
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